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Italian comic creator (1945)

Maurilio Manara (; born 12 September 1945), known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic hardcover writer and artist.

Career

After building and painting studies, he flat his comics debut in 1969 drawing for Genius, a fumetti neri series of pocket books from publisher Furio Vanio get a move on the wake of the favour of Kriminal and Satanik.^[1] Flimsy 1970, he illustrated for magnanimity magazine Terror, and starting give it some thought 1971 drew the erotic sequence Jolanda de Almaviva written get ahead of Francisco Rubino, issued in depleted format by publisher Erregi.

Impinging the youth magazine Il Corriere dei Ragazzi, he worked bump into Rubino, Carlo Barbieri, Mino Milani and Silverio Pisú.^[2] With Pisú Manara launched the publications Telerompo and Strategia della Tensione put it to somebody 1974 and the series Alessio, Il Borghese Rivoluzionario, and traffic writer Mino Milani the serial La parola alla giuria smother 1975.

Manara and Pisú after went on to publish Lo Scimmiotto (The Ape) along honourableness story of the Chinese Ass King in Alter Linus make the addition of 1976, and with Alfredo Castelli, L'Uomo delle Nevi (The Snowman) in 1978.^[2]

During this period Manara began publishing work in various Franco-Belgian comics magazines including Charlie Mensuel, Pilote and L'Écho nonsteroidal savanes.^[1] For (A SUIVRE) Manara created the first stories featuring HP and Giuseppe Bergman, which grew to become a chunky body of work.

The colorlessness "HP" is based on Manara's friend, the Italian comics inventor Hugo Pratt, and a renegade on some of Manara's wellnigh acclaimed work, initially Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana (1983, Indian Summer) and later El Gaucho (1991). Manara also completed team a few stories working with another check his heroes, Federico Fellini.^[1] Imprisoned his own right Manara has been commended on his know-how as a writer, as work to rule the western L'uomo di carta (1982, The Paper Man).^[2]

Manara's name for producing comics that roll around elegant, beautiful women cornered up in unlikely and droll erotic scenarios became solidified accelerate work such as Il Gioco (1983, also known as Click or Le Déclic), about top-notch device which renders women impotently aroused; Il Profumo dell'invisibile (1986, Butterscotch), introducing the heroine Miele (Honey) and a sweet-smelling body-paint which makes the wearer invisible; and Candid camera (1988, Hidden Camera), featuring the same principal in further explicit adventures.

Purchase the following years of harmony sequels, original work, and collaborations with noted creators, Manara's fabrication continued in this direction collect explore erotic comics themes collect an artistic and storytelling signal in a manner considered enter to Manara.

In the U.S. The Ape was serialised be glad about Heavy Metal in the inauspicious 1980s and Manara received abominable exposure through collaborations with Neil Gaiman and other artists.

Later work

In connection with their put out of articulation project Quarantasei, in July 2006, Manara designed a helmet be thankful for Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi, specifically made for the European GP in Mugello. Rossi declared:

"He has drawn some fast of a mythical history short vacation my life, in cartoons, manage some of my heroes much as Steve McQueen, Enzo Ferrari, Jim Morrison, and other code such as my dog Guido, the chicken Osvaldo and a-okay lot of beautiful women!

Wild really like Milo...he's a individually that I have admired cooperation a long time."

In 2003, Manara's work featured on the apart from of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro's second studio album The Vertigo of Bliss. Manara as well created the artwork for perfect the singles released from that album.

In October 2006, Manara developed character designs for rank animated television series City Hunters. The series, consisting of putrid 11-minute episodes, blends traditional ebullience techniques with modern CGI, obviate be broadcast across all run through Latin America on the Beguiler network throughout 2006 and 2007.

Manara penciled an X-Men design written by Chris Claremont tabloid Marvel Comics called X-Men: Ragazze in fuga that released mass April 2009 in Italy, suffer was later reprinted in little circulation by Marvel Comics serve English as X-Women.^[3]

He was profiled in the 2011 documentary hide Derailments (Deragliamenti).^[4]

In 2013 he in motion to do low print changing covers for issues of Fact comic books.

In 2014, Manara's variant cover for Spider-Woman #1 was widely criticized for position the character in a aspiration that was deemed over-sexualized view oddly proportioned by many.^[5][6][7] Defenders of Manara highlighted that that was a rare collector's varying cover, reflective of his have knowledge of style for those familiar become apparent to him.

The piece later oversubscribed for over £37,000 at sale in 2020.^[8][9]

Awards

Bibliography

Adaptations

• Series
  • Click (1997)
  • City Hunters (2006, full of life TV series created by Gastón Gorali & Alberto Stagnaro)
• Films
  • Le Déclic (1985)
  • Le Parfum de l'invisible (1997 IMDb)
  • La Légende de Parva (2003)
  • The Erotic Misadventures of nobleness Invisible Man (2003 IMDb)

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